'Yong-IMAX' Odyssey Scalped Tickets Surge... Resold for "300,000 Won" as Buyers Offer "Name Your Price"

Amid the box office craze for director Christopher Nolan's new film "Odyssey," ticket scalping—reselling IMAX movie tickets at exorbitant prices—is running rampant.

For the Yongsan IPark Mall IMAX theater, all screening sessions with tickets opened up to the 25th are completely sold out, excluding the first-row accessible seats for individuals with disabilities.

Against this backdrop, posts by so-called "scalpers" reselling IMAX tickets at a steep markup continue to flood major second-hand trading platforms.

There are also many posts from prospective buyers offering to purchase tickets while asking sellers to name their price.

Consequently, scalped ticket prices have skyrocketed.

A listing for three consecutive seats for the evening screening on the 14th was priced at nearly 300,000 won.

Considering that a standard weekend ticket for the Yongsan IMAX costs in the 20,000-won range per person, this is more than four times the original price.

Even morning screenings eligible for weekday early-bird discounts sold out, prompting listings reselling two-seat tickets for those times at nearly 280,000 won.

Despite this chaos, there are no adequate measures to sanction these hoarding sellers.

An official from one platform stated, "We do not have uniform trading restriction standards regarding the resale of movie tickets," adding, "We have not received any requests for cooperation from relevant authorities to date."

An official from another platform noted, "Movie tickets fall into a blind spot in the resale sector," explaining, "We face difficulties in taking individual disciplinary actions."

Among netizens, reactions to this price-gouging phenomenon include comments such as "This is getting out of hand" and "I wish platforms would make an example of them and permanently ban their accounts."

(Reported by Kim Jiuk | Video by Lee Yu-jin | Graphics by Lee Jeong-ju | Produced by SBS Digital News | Source footage: Second-hand trading platform Danggn, CGV movie ticketing website)
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